Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side dancing) is nice for the simplicity.

This little js library helps you categorize, sort, and filter a responsive grid of items.

As CSSNext is now deprecated you can use instead the Postcss plugin "PostCSS Preset Env" to lets you use modern CSS in your style sheet.